LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT OF FARMERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SERP PROGRAM

Simple item page
dc.contributor.advisorDr. Md. Farug Hasan
dc.contributor.authorDITI, S.M. JANNATUN ISLAM
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-23T04:11:52Z
dc.date.available2022-04-23T04:11:52Z
dc.date.issued2014-06
dc.descriptionBangladesh is a developing country where 76.47 percent of her total population lives in the rural areas (AIS, 2007). Agriculture is the principal means of livelihoods in Bangladesh. Rural participants are intimately involved in all phases of agricultural activities in rural areas. People, who primarily work as unpaid family worker, accounted for 45.6 percent of the total employment in agriculture (FAO, 2003). The daily life of rural participant is characterized by search for water, fuel and inputs for agriculture or household production for maintaining their livelihoods. The fundamental requirement for the improvement of livelihoods of the household is to inhance peoples strength and activities essential for the means of living. The livelihood improvement is founded on a belief that people require a range of assets to achieve a positive livelihood outcome. The major livelihood components are human, social, financial, physical and natural capitals (DFID, 2000).
dc.description.abstractThe study aimed at exploring the livelihood improvement of the SERP program participants and finding out the relationships between some of the selected characteristics of the farmers and their livelihood improvement. Data were collected by using a pre-tested interview schedule from the farmers of four unions under Atwari upazila of Panchagarh district. Data were collected from randomly selected 103 respondents of the total 1030 SERP beneficiaries by using simple random sampling method from 17 May to 25 June, 2014. The selected nine (9) characteristics of the farmers such as age, education, family size, farm size, annual income, training experience, agricultural knowledge, extension media contact and organizational participation were considered as the independent variables where livelihood improvement of the fac constituted the dependent variable. Livelihood improvement of the farmers was measured by 5 point modified Likert scale. It was found that the observed score of livelihood improvement of the participating farmers ranged from 51 to 101 in score while the possible range was 45 to 225. The mean livelihood improvement score was 81.83 with a standard deviation of 9.43. Among the farmers, 66.0 percent belonged to medium status of livelihood improvement status while 14.6 percent of them had high status of livelihood improvement and 19.4 percent had low status of livelihood improvement. The variation regarding different assets of livelihood was minimum, the highest status of livelihood improvement was observed in case of natural capital and it was the lowest in case of social capital. Four (4) out of nine (9) selected characteristics of the farmers are education, farm size, annual income] and agricultural knowledge had significant positive relationships with their livelihood improvement. Rests of the characteristics are age, family size, training experience, extension media contact and organizational participation had no significant relationship with their livelihood improvement.
dc.identifier.otherhttp://103.7.193.12:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/549
dc.identifier.urihttp://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/123456789/549
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherHAJEE MOHAMMAD DANESH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY UNIVERSITY, DINAJPUR.
dc.sourceHSTU Institutional Repository
dc.subjectPARTICIPATION IN SERP PROGRAM
dc.subjectHistory of SERP Program in Bangladesh
dc.subjectSpecific Objectives of the Study
dc.titleLIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT OF FARMERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SERP PROGRAM
dc.typeThesis

Files

Original bundle

Now showing 1 - 1 of 1
Thumbnail Image
Name:
LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT OF FARMERS THROUGH PARTICIPATION IN SERP PROGRAM BY S ,M ,Jannatun Islam Diti.pdf
Size:
15.41 MB
Format:
Adobe Portable Document Format
Download

Collections

Masters Thesis